Female genital organs

The most common are the tubes, less often the endometrium (the inner part of the uterus) and the ovaries, extremely rarely - the cervix, the vagina, the vulva.
Tuberculosis is often masked and is taken for the manifestation of inflammation of the uterine appendages, caused by pyogenic microbes. As a rule, to some extent, there are symptoms of general order - malaise, fatigue, decreased appetite, sweating, subfebrile temperature. The pains are of an uncertain nature, usually localized in the lower abdomen. The menstrual function is broken.
It presents great difficulties: indistinctly expressed symptoms of tuberculous intoxication usually elude attention of the doctor, signs of defeat of the uterine appendages do not differ from those in patients with adixitis.
The tuberculosis process of the uterine appendages can cause inflammation of the peritoneum - peritonitis. The acute course of it is extremely rare, more often observed exudate, the clinical picture of which is scarce. The blood test is almost always without deviations from the norm. Sometimes such patients are operated on for "chronic appendicitis." Cures tuberculous peritonitis with prolonged combined antituberculous therapy.